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Incorporating electrical and mechanical engineering, software and hardware design, and drawing on insights gleaned from fields as diverse as biology, ethics, and psychology, robotics is a truly multidisciplinary domain. Mathematics and physics are central, and intertwined, of course. And both are used to produce automation that doesn’t cause collisions. In this post, we’ll take a high-level look at the basics of motion control, kinematics,...

It's not uncommon in the Bay Area to spot a driverless test car sharing the highway, a whirling lidar array atop its roof. Not so much in Southern California, where little robot car testing has been conducted to date. That will change soon. Driverless car technology company Motional announced that it will deploy "in the near term" a test fleet of new Hyundai Ioniq...

Maybe you’ve heard of Software as a Service (SaaS), and maybe even Platform as a Service (PaaS). The intent behind these “as-a-Service” implementations is to democratize the technology while lowering the barrier to entry for businesses, large and small alike. The “as a Service” philosophy is becoming more prevalent in today’s working environment and is spreading to new aspects of work. One of those...